Desktop Files

[Emmanuel Kasper]

Le 06/06/2011 20:50, Jordi Mallach a écrit :
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:16:44PM +0200, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
>> yes in case it was not clear, I would prefer to have the mess desktop
>> files inside the mess package inside the git repository on alioth inside
>> debian inside, well I guess it's enough now ;)
> 
> Ah, well, in this case, Gerfried was right.
> 
> I don't want to package a MESS desktop file, I want to package
> “mess-desktop-entries”, which register the appropriate mime types and
> actions for the file types MESS can run. This is a package on its own and
> should be packaged on its own, not included in MAME. By the same reasoning
> g-v-a is not packaged inside the MAME package, fwiw.
> 
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/mess-desktop-entries/

ok I misunderstood I though this work was happening into the *debian*
gnome packaging team. All of you are right ! Mime types are great, I
never thought as using my file browser to launch games, but it's a nice
way !

>> I have also hope that this desktop file could be sent to upstream, so we
>> can share it with fedora
> 
> I actually hate having a .desktop file for MAME in my apps menu. That's
> why we have frontends for ;)
> 

A propos front end, I looked a lit a bit for mess front ends to improve
that somehow crude mess experiment

mess to770 -cart basic.m7 -cass ARKANOID.K7

to start a game is not that user friendly

Most active seems to be qt based qmc2 , they regularly build pacakges on
a ubuntu ppa and someone propsed a ( now outdated ) package on
mentors.debian.net

http://qmc2.arcadehits.net/wordpress/

Unfortunately qmc2 takes the all inclusive-with-kitchen approach that I
am not a fan of, I much prefer g-v-a in that matter.

Manu